it's okay. it's okay. gunfire at a new jersey mall. hundreds of police officers swarm a sprawling shopping complex on the hunt for a gunman who opened fire. >> then i saw him walk past our door. and he paused for a second and just looked inside the store. and then he fired two more. more troubles for president obama's health care program while he promises a fix for the government's onlinsurae page, there are new questions about how much was known about the website's security measures. and new details in the abuse allegations swirling around the miami dolphins. the nfl investigates threats the suspended player allegedly made toward a teammate. this is the "cbs morning news" for tuesday, november 5th, 2013.

good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. well, this morning, police are searching for a gunman that opened fire inside a crowded new jersey shopping mall. there are no reports of injury. police swarmed the garden state plaza mall last night just before closing time. the mall was locked down and will remain closed today. the mall is located about 15 miles northwest of new york city jury rica dunkin is there. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, ann marie. we are learning about how this shooter died. police say it was through a self-inflicted gun wound. police say it was obvious this gunman came in here and did not have plans on leaving alive. police say he fired a minimum of six shots before he killed himself. s.w.a.t. team members stormed the garden state mall in new jersey. a gunman opened fire just before closing time. these women came face to face with the shooter.

>> out of nowhere, the guy walked right past the front door and he is just shooting shots in the air. >> he paused for a second and just looked inside the store. i just froze. >> reporter: witnesses say the suspect was dressed in all black wearing a motorcycle helmet. officials say no one was injured. >> it is not an active shooting scene at this point. we are just sweeping the mall making sure everybody gets out in a safe and orderly way. >> reporter: security immediately put the maum into lockdown. many customers and employees hit inside stores until police could escort them to safety. this cell phone video shows people being led out of the mall. >> it is the scariest thing when you see this coming waiting at the door for you to come out. >> reporter: police worked through the night clearing the mall making sure everyone inside was safe. >> we go store by store, room by room and that takes quite a while and 2.2 million square feet. >> reporter: john miller says police in new jersey have run through active shooter drills that the very facility. >> they are literally familiar

with the territory inside and this dynamic. they have done this search in the training mode. >> reporter: police say they are unsure of a motive at this point. they are not sure why this gentleman decided to go inside this mall and open fire at least six times and then kill himself. police say he does have a history with law enforcement officials in this area mainly for drug use and drug abuse. but they are still trying to get to that question as to why he did this in the first place. as for the mall, which is on lockdown right now, police say the mall will remain closed today. ann marie? >> thank you. in los angeles, some are arguing that the gunman that opened fires last week at the l.a. airport could have been shot, as there were armed guards outside the security area. police say the gunman did not raise suspicions when he entered

the shooter. alleged shooter, paul chiantia looked like a normal person. >> tony grigsby can barely walk after surviving friday's shootings at the airport. police say 23-year-old paul ciancia shot him. investigators visited his apartment just outside los angeles and left with his roommate who drove ciancia to the airport but had no idea what was going to happen next. authorities say ciancia walked into l.a.x., pulled an assault rifle he hit in two separate pieces of luggage and opened fire. gerardo hernandez was killed, a tsa agent. grigsby worked with him and considered him a dear friend. >> only now it has hit me i will

never see him again. >> reporter: police shot ciancia four times an took him to a nearby hospital. they released a statement through the lawyer. >> paul is our son and brother. we will continue to love and care for him. >> reporter: ciancia left a hand-written note inside his bag. he said he made a conscious decision to try to kill multiple tsa employees. people who knew him he say they don't know why he wanted to target the tsa. on capitol hill, lawmakers are pushing legislation to address what's becoming a key issue with health care overall reform. the termination of coverage letters some consumers are getting from their insurers. susan is in washington. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it is those millions of cancellation letters being received by americans that have consumers and members of congress so upset. the president promised anyone who likes their health care plan can keep it. yesterday, he did express sympathy to those losing their

coverage but said, oftentimes, they were getting a bad deal. >> while virtually every insurer is offering new, better plan, and competing for these folks business, i realize that can be scary for people if they just get some notice like that. >> the cancellation controversy has triggered challenges from both sides of the political aisle. the republican-controlled house is expected to vote as early as next week on a bill to allow inshune inshi insurers to continue selling policies that were in effect of january 1st, 2013. a similar bill introduced by democrats requires it. the president says his health care bill is designed to make the insurance market better for everyone. >> one of the reasons we took up health care reform was not just to help the uninsured but also the underinsured or the badly insured. another issue concerns website security. cbs news has learned that as

healthcare.com was being developed, tests fell behind schedule. the deadline for final website security plan slipped three times, from may 6th, to july 15th. the final top to bottom security test never got done. an obama administration memo shows that four days before the launch, the government granted themselves the ability to proceed with high risk nothing can undermine public confidence than the fear of a privacy breach. you could have somebody hack into the system, get your social security number, get your financial information. >> reporter: for health and human services secretary, kathleen sebelius, said, at a hearing, americans don't need to worry about security on healthcare.gov. we know many are already experiencing security breaches. she is back for another hearing. >> another hearing.

perhaps another grilling today is election day. a slate of political contests are on ballots across the country. the closely watched governor's race in agenda has become a referendum on obama care. democrats are pushing terry mcauliffe in a tight race against a tea party favorite. >> are you willing to make your case every single hour every single minute? >> campaigning for democrat, terry mcauliffe, sunday, president obama, said republican, ken cuccinelli, a favorite of the tea party and a staunch opponent of abortion and gay rights, is too conservative for the swing state of virginia. it is an argument mccough live has been making. >> cuccinelli tried to ban common forms of birth control. >> even the bill. >> even the pill. >> way too extreme. >> reporter: mcauliffe told us that his strategy in this race will help defeat tea party candidates nationwide.

>> reporter: so there is a message beyond virginia? >> mainstream, bipartisan, pragmatic leadership, bringing folks together. >> reporter: cuccinelli gave us a different take. >> reporter: why is he winning? >> he is spending millions of dollars. much of it untruthful. >> reporter: his campaign says he can win. some of the credit goes to president obama. his visit here sunday firmly tied mcauliffe to the disastrous rollout of obama care and fired up the tea party base. >> make no mistake about it. tuesday is a referendum on obama care in virginia. let's go beat obama care. let's beat higher taxes. let's protect our constitution and send terry mcauliffe back to the other side of the potomac where he belongs. >> reporter: overall turnout is expected to below, if there is a big turnout among tea party supporters, this election could

be closer than the polls suggest. that has some democrats a little bit worried. chip reid, cbs news, arlington, virginia. the other governor's race on the ballot is in new jersey. chris christie holds a commanding lead over democrat barbara buono. he refused to rule out the possibility he would resign before a second term is over to run for president. coming up on the morning news, a survivor's story. one of the cleveland kidnapping victim shares the horrific details of her ten years in captivity. this is the cbs morning news. >> announcer: this portion of "cbs morning news" sponsored by airborne, immune support, now in the form of gummis. ♪

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asian markets were mixed after comments by china's premier on the need to guard against inflation. tokyo's nikkei added a quarter of a percent, hong kong's hang seng lost half a percent and wall street posted modest gains. the dow, rose 24 points and the senate took an important step in passing a landmark gay rights bill. on monday, by a vote of 61-30, the senate agreed to consider a bill that would ban work place discrimination against gay, bi-sexual and transgender americans. johnson & johnson has agreed to pay more than $2 billion to settle fraud charges. the government says they illegally marketed prescription drugs and were involved in kick backs to doctors. this is one of the largest health care fraud settlements. another record fines. this will be paid by s.a.c.

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the high. denver, snow. and seattle, mostly cloudy. mote ♪ the miami dolphins are a team in turmoil. they've suspended a lineman for allegedly bullying a teammate. and now some threatening and racist messages have reportedly been uncovered. teresa gar reya has the details. >> reporter: miami guard richie incognito won't be playing pro football for a while. he's been suspended for allegedly threatening jon martin and family. >> threats of i'm going to get your mother. i'm going to get your mother. i'm going to kill you, that is above and beyond the code. above and beyond what's accepted anywhere. >> reporter: now, the nfl will conduct a workplace review. >> if the review shows that this

is not a safe atmosphere, i will take whatever measures are necessary to ensure that it is. >> reporter: incognito's record has not gone unnoticed. in his first four years he led the league in penalties for unnecessary roughness. nfl players voted him the league's dirtiest player in 2009. dolphins players said they didn't notice any locker room hostility. >> i didn't recognize anybody being bullied, hazed, none of that. playing with your brothers. >> reporter: incognito tweeted sunday, three things cannot be long hidden, the sun, the moon and the truth. teresa garcia, cbs news. coming up on "cbs this morning" budget legend julius erving visiting the studio. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." when it comes to getting my family to eat breakfast,

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just before closing time last night. shoop took his own life. there were no other injuries. now, hundreds of american airmen imprisoned during world war ii are finally being recognized. and elaine quijano reports their plight was documented by a grandson who took up their cause. >> reporter: in the fight against hitler forces during world war ii, thousands of planes were shot down as they carried out bombing runs over germany lieutenant colonel james

misuraca b-22 bomber was among them. misuraca and crew members were detained by the swiss and held in a stripped-down motel until the day he tried to escape, was caught and sent to a military camp for pun shlishment. what was he like? >> this man who had no heart. every day, all i could think of was escape. >> reporter: he spent 31 days there starving and freezing, until he tried escaping again and made it to safety. his lesson to others from that experience -- >> never give up. >> reporter: 1500 other u.s. airmen ended up in switzerland. over 160 were sent to that prison camp for attempting escape, including the grandfather of army major grant mears. >> that's my grand father right there. >> reporter: mears discovered

during the war there were rumors that u.s. airmen were cowards who landed there to avoid fighting. >> some assumed these airmen reached the breaking point they could rather sit out the war in a neutral country and learn to zee or something. >> reporter: mears spent the next 15 years documenting and petitioning military trying to set the record straight. >> in the first, in the very beginning, this was about my grandfather. as i started interviewing other airmen, 00 eye came to identify with them and i felt they were worthy of recognition. >> reporter: the air force finally agreed. they recently approved the airmen's recommendations pour p.o.w. misuraca is one of 12 still alive. coming up after your local news, on "cbs this morning," we'll go live to new jersey for the very latest on the mall

shooting. plus, new details in the miami dolphins investigation into blazer hazing. we'll hear from james brown of cbs' "nfl today." and baker from the mentalist stops by the studio. that's all for "cbs morning news." i'm anne-marie green. thanks for watching. have a great day. ,,,,,,